There was another comment in this thread about exactly that situation, a female police officer that noticed a creepy guy following her around during her patrol. But there’s lots of other potential negatives to having open immediate police comms, like criminals monitoring to see whether there are police around before doing whatever criminality they were planning on doing.

Same goal of body cameras, but we all see how that turned out.

Sounds like “we tried it once and it didn’t work, therefore we should never try again.” Instead, we should take into account how the body camera situation has failed and modify the approach to account for it.

Mandate that the buffer be operated by an independent body the police have no control over, for example.